WAYS TO MEET OPPRESSION IS AN ESSAY WRITTEN BY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., ADDRESSING SEGREGATION SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED AT AFRICAN AMERICAN AUDIENCE. King's primary audience is African Americans, but he also addresses a secondary audience, which is a combination of Christians or those who know or believe in Christian views, as well as people in the legal system. Throughout his text he provides examples that will demonstrate how he is primarily addressing African Americans, but also the various other audiences he is trying to reach through his memorable speech. In his writings he tells three ways in which they face oppression and, based on these, sends a message to all those who have read or listened to his words. This message states what has been done in the past, as well as what should be done based on these past experiences. King chooses to speak to certain people through certain contexts and key phrases. In the choice of certain phrases and also in the way he states his words, he manages to influence the entire audience he intended to persuade. The words he carefully chose will tell how and why he wanted to focus on the primary and secondary audiences of his choice. Martin Luther King Jr. expresses to the black race that the way people deal with their oppression is acquiescence. This term means to passively accept. He is telling his audience, in this case African Americans, to give up and simply follow the orders given to them. Instead of defending themselves in some way, they prefer to be oppressed. This shows that they are used to the task of being slaves and choose to keep it that way instead of standing up for their rights. It wants to give the idea of ​​black pop... in the middle of the paper... personal experience and deep and emotional terms. This essay is very influential from start to finish. Use terms that make oppression sound terrible, to make them feel guilty for what they let happen. King appears to be very successful in capturing the audience he intended to capture by stating Scripture to appeal to Christians, words used to describe things that would be much worse; how to use evil to describe oppression or injustice, write it in an obvious form that everyone can understand. He left them very powerful messages that will stay in their minds until they can't take it anymore, until they see that this is actually wrong and do something to fix the justice system under which they are governed. He left with this thought in mind, he very well succeeded in making his point as he intended it.